Bean curd.

It sounds like an extremely common food, but it's actually a miracle.

This thing has to be a combination of soy milk and salt brine to coagulate into tofu.

It doesn't seem like a coincidence, as long as the population base is large enough, it should be made out anyway!

There is also an unavoidable premise: soybeans are a very low-cost crop compared to other grains. Regardless of the difficulty of cooking, taste, production efficiency, storage and other considerations, it cannot become a staple crop.

Before the invention of stone milling, the main use of soybeans was actually to feed livestock......

And the monks of this world have long excluded soybeans from the category of medicinal materials and dancai, so naturally no one will rush to pour salt brine into soybean milk - before the stone mill, it was even more difficult to make soy milk.

From Shen Bao's experience in the past two years, he can be sure that no one in this other world has ever seen tofu, or even drank soy milk. As a graduate of a third-rate culinary training college, Shen Bao happened to know how to make salt brine.

With the previous experience of Eight Treasure Porridge, Shen Bao was even more convinced that if he wanted to earn spirit stones, he had to take an unusual path. And whether it is the secrecy of the production process or the strange cooking methods, the tofu is much higher than the eight-treasure porridge. If you want to drink a few bowls of tofu brain, you can reverse deduce the production process, which is tantamount to a fool's dream!

……

The next day, Shen Bao gathered everyone and beckoned them to go to the lake to boil water.

"Bao Ye, do you want to take a bath in broad daylight?"

"Let's not pay attention to it, take off our clothes and jump into the lake to plane twice, and we'll be done, no need to boil water."

"What about a dozen people, how long will it burn?"

"Stone, you go get some firewood."

Chen Er didn't wait for Shen Bao to speak, picked up a stone from the ground again, and said viciously: "If you don't listen to the call of the scum, you will accompany the monkey to bury a piece." Damn, I didn't see you do much when I was a slave in the mines! Pick up a few pieces of coarse clothes that others wear and cover them with turtle hair, right? ”

Seeing Shenbao standing behind Chen Er, these mining slaves were finally honest. Obey the instructions and set up a few pots by the lake and start boiling water.

With the experience of eight-treasure porridge, Shen Bao naturally wouldn't let these people steal the method of making salt and brine, and instructed Chen Er: "Second brother, you take them to the lake to wash them thoroughly, and no one is allowed to approach the cauldron without my instructions." ”

The ordinary lake water boiled several cauldrons in a row, and finally got together a little salt and brine flakes.

It wasn't until Shenbao beckoned the miners to pack up their things and return to Lingtian that they found that everyone was looking at him with puzzled eyes - he asked a vote of people to boil water early in the morning, and then rushed down to the lake to bathe, and the pot was all boiled dry and nothing was boiled, isn't it nonsense?

It was Chen Er's spirit, and shouted: "I'm stunned, don't carry Bao Ye's Dan pot back!" The eyeballs grow on the buttocks, and they are picked out without use. ”

Shen Bao felt more and more that Chen Er was a rare talent, who could bluff other mine slaves and at the same time be very good at things. Many things that are inconvenient for him can be done on his own initiative.

Miscellaneous rooms.

Le Xian looked at Shenbao in front of him and sighed, and persuaded: "Xiaobao, this year's Linggu market is indeed not very good, you can't use Lingtian to grow soybeans, right?" In addition to the spirit beast house, which will collect some ordinary soybeans to feed the livestock, even if you grow spirit beans, who will you sell them to? ”

Shen Bao had already thought of an excuse, and said with a bitter face: "Deacon Le, Mangshanfang City can't find a buyer for a spirit stone and fifty catties of spirit valley now, if I still plant a spirit valley to remove the team protection fee, filial piety, and Fang city tax, I have to paste two spirit stones upside down per mu of land......"

As a deacon of the miscellaneous house, Le Xian is also well-informed from all walks of life: "It's not your own headache right now, Juli Sect, Yin Ghost Gate, and Baicaofang all have grain farmers escaping, and the next season Linggu production is less, maybe the price will rise." ”

Shen Bao was stunned when he heard this, this otherworldly monk actually understands the relationship between supply and demand? However, Linggu, a low-value-added crop, how much higher can it be even if it rises again!

So he came up with a more reliable reason: "I'm thinking about cultivating some spirit beans to try, if the spirit beasts raised by the elders like it, just give some rewards, it will be better than the income in the spirit valley." ”

Le Xian also nodded when he heard this, and raised his hand to approve a piece of paper: "This is true, the elders will be happy to serve you and reward you with a bottle of Qi Refining Pill, which is worth at least dozens of spirit stones when sold to the market." Then you go to the treasury to withdraw 500 catties of soybeans, and you can come out of the breeding spirit stones yourself, and first advance your monthly salary for half a year. ”

At the same time, there was also a handful of spirit stones, fifteen. As a disciple of the outer door of the miscellaneous room, Shen Bao should have three spirit stones per month, no wonder Le Xian is so generous, it turns out that there is also a head cut off!

Shen Bao took away ten spirit stones and documents, but left another five for Le Xian: "Thank you Deacon Le." ”

Seeing that the kid in front of him was so good, Le Xian put the five spirit stones back in his pocket, and said: "Well, I see that your kid is clever enough, if the spirit bean is cultivated well, I will help mention it to a few elders." ”

"Then there will be Deacon Lore."

"Don't be polite to me, I like to carry sensible juniors."

……

Having received soybeans from the warehouse, Shenbao was not in a hurry to cultivate.

The first thing he had to figure out was that there were soybeans here, and he knew that he had been here for two years. But whether it can be condensed into tofu, it's really uncertain - at the same time, make the worst plan, even if the tofu fails, you can still make a small profit by making a stone mill and selling soy milk.

This time, the thief finally didn't toss around, watching the hot soybean milk in the pot begin to condense flocculent under the action of salt and brine, Shen Bao suddenly sighed.

After taking a few hares and trying them, he confirmed that they were not poisonous, and called Chen Er to try them: "Second brother, try it, how does this thing taste?" ”

Chen Er picked up the bowl and spoon, ate it cleanly, and smacked the aftertaste: "It's very fragrant, a little sweet, and it will break when you chew it." It's delicious, is there any, another bowl! ”

Shen Bao poured a bowl of water and took out two bowls of tofu brain: "You wash it first to let the taste recover." Try these two bowls again to see which one tastes better. ”

Chen Er followed the instructions, and after confirming that the sense of taste was normal, he tasted two different flavors of food one by one: "These two bowls are sweet and salty and spicy, I feel that the sweet ones are better, and the salty and spicy ones are also good, and I feel that the taste is different." Our way of earning spirit stones, this is what we are, right? It would be safer not to let them taste it, and to have more opinions. ”

The first bowl is the original tofu brain, and no condiments are added.

The second bowl is sweet tofu brain, mixed with a little honey.

The third bowl is naturally a salted tofu brain, the product of adding chili peppers and sauce.

"Well, ask more about everyone's tastes and see if there are any other adjustments. This thing is called tofu brain, and it is a specialty of my hometown. ”

Shen Bao tried them separately, but the taste was still a little lower than the one in his memory, after all, many condiments in this world were not found. However, it must be no problem to deal with these monks who have never seen tofu brains. The eight-treasure porridge last time I drank it was just average, and the popularity directly scared him away.

"I didn't notice the smell of brain pulp when I ate it, it's more like the fragrance of grains, so strange?"

"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it, tell everyone to come and try it, let's go to Mangshanfang City in a few days to make a profit."

There are a lot of beans in the world, and it is not easy to associate soybeans with their names alone, and the most important salt brine method is still in their own hands.

A group of mine slaves have said that they have never eaten such delicious, and the sweet and salty tofu brains are lovely!

The next few days were busy, and Chen Er led a group of mine slaves to build a stone mill according to Shen Bao's description. This thing can't be hidden, and the work of grinding soy milk in the future will have to fall on the head of the miners.

Shen Bao took Nangong Spring to boil the lake water day and night to collect salt and brine, and practiced the Golden Ring Sword Qi in his spare time.

Although Nangong Quan is now a wasted person, the Golden Ring Sword Qi that has been improved by him is really extraordinary. In particular, the method of using spiritual power can be said to have reached the limit of a monk in the foundation building period!

A few days later, Mangshanfang City.

It's still a mule team, which is far worse than the grain farmer team organized by the old blackheads.

Several mules and horses carrying ten boxes of tofu brains slowly prepared to register in the market. In the past, these trivial things were handled by the old black head, and they could be done with the least amount of spirit stones. When he arrived at Shen Bao, he was in some trouble, and he was directly stopped by the monk guarding the door.

"What is your white flower?"

"Immortal, this is called tofu brain, a thing to eat."

"How come I've never heard of this thing, do you bring it into the market to sell it or supply it to the merchants inside?"

"Go in and sell it, and earn some spirit stones to make ends meet."

"This food must be sold by the deacon of Fang City to sign a document and check it with me."

……

When the book is used, there is little hatred, and it is not difficult to experience it.

In the past, it was very easy to follow the old black head into the market, but when I got here, I couldn't even enter the gate! Sure enough, the leader of any group is not simple, even if it is only the lowest level of the grain farmer circle.

Let Chen Er lead the mules and horses to wait outside the gate, and Shen Bao went to find the deacon of Fang City alone. Fortunately, he is not a chick, and he has seen the boss deal with food and bathroom security checks in the back kitchen before. A few spirit stones were sent out, and I finally got the documents to enter the market, and I rented a temporary vacant land with them.

The front foot stepped into the trading area, and Shenbao was dumbfounded.

"Wu Ji authentic eight-treasure porridge, real grains delicious, restore the original touch! Drink one bowl and get one bowl free, two spirit stones to your heart's content! ”

"The secret eight-treasure porridge of Yunshilou took five years to develop in the middle of the kitchen repair. Retain a variety of Linggu fragrance, and it can speed up the absorption rate of spiritual power by 30%, no matter how much you drink, Master doesn't have to worry about stomach bloating, and new customers enjoy a seven-fold discount on a first-come, first-served basis! ”

"The improved version of the thirteen porridges of the six Dan masters of Baicaofang, combing the meridians to open up the efficiency of the dantian spirit, blending thirteen precious Dan materials, it is good to drink but not hot. Today's reward, if you spend five spirit stones, you can get a limited edition of Baicaofang's post, and then buy all the pills at 10% off......"

"Pinggu Eight Treasure Porridge in Liugou Village, cheap, cheap, still cheap! Five catties of cans for one spirit stone, and twenty catties of pots for two spirit stones! ”

Walking around casually, Shenbao had already found five or seven trading houses selling eight-treasure porridge. Although the passenger flow is not as amazing as when the eight-treasure porridge first appeared, it is also very impressive. Even Wu Su, who used to be in the Linggu Commercial Bank, set up more than a dozen tables and chairs, shouting loudly about his eight-treasure porridge.

Shen Bao smiled bitterly: "I knew that this thing would rot on the street sooner or later, and I didn't expect it to be so soon." It seems that no matter where it is, whenever there is a little outlet, there is no shortage of quick preemptors. ”

Wu Su also saw Shen Bao in search of sound, and smiled a little helplessly: "I have to blame the old black thief, the three hundred spirit stones that he said sold me the secret recipe, who knew that he was looking for dozens of business houses at the same time!" Nowadays, selling eight-treasure porridge is crazy, and the price is falling every day. ”

As the first to know about the eight-treasure porridge and watch it sell well, Wu Su was naturally tempted to spend a lot of money to find the old blackhead to buy the secret recipe. Unexpectedly, the other party shook a shot and fiercely circled a wave of spirit stones in Mangshanfang City, ranging from three to five hundred to eighty or ninety, so that the entire Mangshanfang City's eight-treasure porridge making process has become a well-known thing.

If it weren't for the freshness of the eight-treasure porridge at the moment, the commercial houses would be busy seizing the market in a hurry, and they would have to catch the old black head and clean it up!

When they found out that this groveling Gu farmer was not earning hundreds of spirit stones from his own family, but nearly 10,000 spirit stones that swept through the entire Fang City, it was too late to send someone to intercept and kill.

And the old black man, who made a lot of money, patted his ass and led a group of grain farmers to an unknown distance. He also spent hundreds of spirit stones in advance to buy a magic circle to hide his whereabouts, which really taught this group of pretentious monks a hard lesson.